Welcome to Spirit First...a holy, gentle, quiet place, a place for contemplation and acceptance, a place for peace and love.
Our work here is to explore our meditations, deepen our mindfulness, strengthen our principles and practices, and become more of our authentic selves. May we, as we put Spirit First, open up more deeply to the silence within and discover the truth of who we are.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

2016 Editor's Choice Award

Jon Wesick is the author of the collection Words of Power, Dances of Freedom; he hosts San Diego’s Gelato
Poetry Series; and he is an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. Jon has published over 300 poems in
journals such as the Atlanta Review, Pearl, and Slipstream. He has published almost 100
short stories, and in 2015, “Visitor” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His
poem “Bread and Circuses” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers
and Artists contest. Jon Wesick has a Ph.D. in physics and is a longtime
student of Buddhism and the martial arts.

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We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion.~ Pico Iyer, "The Eloquent Sounds of Silence"

Spirit First

Spirit First is an inclusive home and retreat for those who seek meditation and contemplation regardless of chosen discipline or faith. If you are Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, or Christian...if you are Sufi, Native American, Taoist, something else or nothing else, you are welcome to this place of quiet and study. At Spirit First we practice going within, and we support each other in our efforts to do so.

Our Mission

Spirit First promotes the practice of meditation and the development of spiritual awareness and mindfulness. We seek to serve by providing education, tools, and networking that support those on a spiritual path. Spirit First encourages holistic attitudes, healthful living, gentleness with the earth, and compassion with the world.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ~ Krishnamurti